AW: [rfc]Checkout without the .svn Directories

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Niels Skou Olsen [mailto:nso@manbw.dk]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 13:13
> An: Fraser Campbell
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Betreff: Re: [rfc]Checkout without the .svn Directories
>
> Fraser Campbell <fraser@georgetown.wehave.net> writes:
>
> > On Thursday 02 December 2004 04:18, Anthony Metcalf wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > You're basically after a bandwidth/time efficient way of
> bringing an export up
> > to date.
>
> [use diff/patch to keep an export updated]
>
> But diff/patch doesn't handle directory tree changes (add,
> remove, rename
> etc). So this method will never be able to truely keep an export up to
> date.
>

We've done such a thing using a working copy that gets updates with svn up and rsync to keep the export directory up to date without transfering too much data. rsync does handle adding and removing directories, what it does not do IIRC is handling renames.
This has been working pretty well so far. Make shure not to forget to check the return value of "svn up" and exit if something went wrong.

regards

fg

--
Felix Gilcher
it developer
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